The App Store gives you endless ways to help students learn new concepts and express their creativity. Let your class explore the properties of magnesium with an interactive periodic table of elements. Teach young readers new words with an app that turns word-building into a game. Or find a digital painting app to make art anywhere without brushes or paint. You can find study-aid apps built specifically for drills and practice. And apps that complement different learning styles. Whatever you’re teaching, apps help you do what you do best — inspire students to think in new ways.

We’ve made it easy for you to find the right apps for every student and class. Find curated, popular apps — organised by both subject and year — that are sure to get your students engaged. For students with disabilities, our special education collection has amazing apps for every need — from sign language and communication to life skills. We’ve even created a collection of apps just for teachers to help you organise more efficiently and teach more effectively.

iBooks is stacked with materials to help you teach practically any subject. And because many books are created just for iPad, they’re not just great reads — they’re great interactive experiences.

iBooks has a massive selection of books for your class. Discover children’s books, classic novels, biographies, reference guides and textbooks from major education publishers. And many of them are free. You can find curated collections like best-practice books and books for teachers — even customised books created by other teachers. And with the iBooks app, your students can download books you selected directly onto iPad, so they always have access to a locker’s worth of textbooks — or even an entire library.

iTunes U is a destination within iTunes solely dedicated to great education content. It’s filled with countless learning resources like lectures, videos, books and more. And it’s all free.

iTunes U is an ever-growing collection of educational content from institutions around the world. Access over 750,000 resources on every topic, many of which can be used to teach to professional standards. It’s easy to use iTunes U materials to complement your lessons. You can bring in an MIT physicist as a guest lecturer. Let history speak for itself with archival films from the Library of Congress. Or add to a maths lesson with an origami tutorial from the Asian Art Museum. Whatever you’re teaching, you can find resources to help your students gain a deeper understanding of the lesson at hand.

The iTunes U catalogue is also an amazing repository of more than 5,000 iTunes U courses published by teachers, instructors and professors from around the world. Explore how other teachers are teaching. Browse their syllabuses, lessons and course materials to get ideas. Or sign up for their courses and experience how they’re teaching classes to their students using videos, digital books and apps — straight from the iTunes U app on iPad.